Stories/Essays: Senseless Streets: mbgang06-01

Jimmy Chambers, 44, an investigator for the Shelby County DA's gang unit, and MPD officer M.A. LeSure confront young men believed to be FAM members outside Trezevant High School. At least one is not a student there. Chambers says gang members routinely arrive around campuses at the end of the school day. "They wear school uniforms," Chambers says, "so they can blend in with the rest of the crowd."